Fruit-peeling apparatus.



PATBNTED SEPT. 29, 190s.

I No; 739,953'.

I0 IODE@ C J VERNON & W A CHOATE .FRUIT P-EELING APPARATUS. APPLIoATroN H'Lnn JAN'. 11, 1902.

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PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. VERNONYAND WALTER A. oI-IoAfrE. OE LOSANGELES, CALIFORNIA, SAID oI-IOA'IE ASSIGNOR To SAID VERNON, coRA B. VERNON ADMINISTRATRIXOE SAID CHARLES J. VERNON,

DECEASED.

FRUIT-PEELING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 739,953, dated September 29, 1903.

- Application filed January 1,7, 1902. Serial No. 90,215. (No model.)

To all whom t .may concern;

Be it knownv that we, .CHARLES J. VERNON and WALTER A. GHOATE, citizens of the United States, residingatcLos Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Fruit- Peeling Apparatus, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention frelates to apparatus Yfor handling fruit, and particularly to means for conveying and treating fruit; and some ofthe objects of the invention are to provide means of this character which will be simpleand cheap in construction and effective for the purpose intended.

Another object of the-invention is to provide a device constructed to retain liquid and to transport the fruit and discharge the same -into .the liquid when desired.

lVith these and rother objects in view the invention consists, essentially, in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, substantially asv more fully described in the following specification and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming partof this application, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan view of the conveyertable, showing two of the gates open. Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of thesame. Fig. 3 is a part sectional side elevational View partly broken away, and Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional View of the conveyer-table.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views. Y

Referring tothe drawings, the referencev character 1 designates the'legs or supports of the conveyer-table, secured to the parallel side pieces 2, to the upper edge whereof are secured laterally-extending plates or ledges 3, having braces 4 connected therewith and with the legs or supports 1 to afford rigidity to these parts.

Parallel partition or division plates 5 are arranged between and at a distance from the side pieces 2 and are connected therewith by inclined bottom members 6, whereby an intermediate longitudinal space is provided,

on each side whereof are formed liquid chant. bers or receptacles, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 4 of the drawings.

Between the parallel plates 5 are revolubly mounted pulleys or rollers 9, and the shaft of one of these rollers 'is preferably eX- tended` as at lO, Fig. 4, and is provided with a band-wheel 11 to receive a driving belt or band by which said roller is actuated in the usual manner. I Mounted to travel over said pulleys or rollers 9 is an endless conveyer 12, adapted to receive the fruit or other material to Ybe handled or treated from the inclined chute 13, arranged to deliver the fruit to the endless conveyer, as will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains.

Movably mounted in recesses in-the free edge of each of the parallel divisiOn-plates or in any other preferred manner are gates 14, preferably arranged in staggered order and constructed to swing across the conveyer 12,

as shown at l5 in Fig. 1, and close the space between the division-plates 5 and deflect the fruit or Inaterial being transported upon said conveyer into one or other of the liquid-chambers 7 on each side of the endless conveyer 12,' as will be readily understood.

' A trough 16 is preferably mounted beneath the endless conveyer 12 upon cross-pieces 17 to receive the liquid escaping from the liquidreceptacles or` from said conveyer or Other- 8o .wise. y VThe operation of this invention will be readily understood from the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the accompanyi ngldrawings and the following eX- planation thereof. The fruit or Inaterial is deposited in the inclined chute 13, which directs it upon the traveling endless conveyer= 12, whereby the fruit or material is transported along between the liquid-receptacles 7 until the passage thereof is obstructed by one of the gates 14 being swung across vbetween said receptacles, as at 15, Fig. 1, whereupon the traveling fruit is deflected by such gate into one or other of the liquid-receptacles, as the case may be. When the desired amount of fruit or material shall have been deposited in one liquid-receptacle, the gate on that side can be closed and a gate on the other side may be opened, whereupon the fruit or material will thereby be discharged into the other receptacle, and by opening different gates the fruit or material can be discharged into different parts of the receptacles or at different places therein.

It is not desired to confine or limit this i11- vention to the specific construction, combination, and arrangement of parts herein shown and described, and the right is reserved to make all such changes in and modifications of the same as come Within the spirit and scope of this invention.

le claim- 1. An apparatus constructed With an intermediate passage for the material, a conveyer in said passage, 1iquid-reeelitaeles on each side of said passage and means for discharging the material into said liquid-receptacles.

2. An apparatus having an intermediate passage for the 4material treated, a convcyer in said passage, liquid-receptacles on each side of said passage and gates pivoted in the walls of said passage and constru eted to swing across the same to effect the discharge of the l 

